Shostakovich Symphony #13: "Babi Yar"

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

Joshua Weilerstein

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In 1961, a poem appeared by the young poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, entitled Babi Yar. The first line of this poem is: “There are no monuments over Babi Yar.” In September of 1941 at least 33,771 Jews were murdered at the Babi Yar ravine in Ukraine; the largest single massacre of Jews to that point in WWII. Shostakovich, moved by the bravery of Yevtushenko's poem, set it and 4 other Yevtushenko poems and created his 13th symphony. This is one of those unforgettable pieces - join me to learn all about it.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sticky Nuts, the Classical Music Podcast.
0:11.0	My name is Joshua Weylerstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the Music Director of the Phoenix
0:14.4	Orchestra of Boston.
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0:36.7	13th Symphony.
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0:53.1	So I'm back in London after my final concerts as artistic director of the Los Angeles
0:56.9	Chamber Orchestra.
0:57.9	It was an incredible last couple of weeks.
1:00.4	We did a recording of music by Smife Grant Still and Ives.
1:04.4	We did a kind of live podcast version of Brahms' first symphony.
1:08.7	And then we performed Brahms' first symphony along with Kodai's dances of Galanta for my final
1:12.8	concerts.
1:13.8	It's just been an incredible six years with the orchestra, and I can't wait to see them
1:17.8	again.
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